Make it so you can change the size of mask brushes and the Retouch Tool with left and right bracket keys.
Explain how - or implement the ability - to put Photoshop, Luminar, etc. in the film strip shortcut links next to the “Export” button at the lower right corner of the workspace. In my copy, Photoshop is installed on my machine yet does not show in the list of available software to link. Conversely, Lightroom in not installed, and yet the link is included as an option. This makes no sense.
Don’t reset the colour rendering when switching from colour to black & white, and back! How annoying!!
Yes, we have to make virtual copies with different renderings in order to avoid that problem.
Since photolab allows now to easily create any kind of mask and skin masks and since it already has a retouch tool, adding a local adjustment split frequency function with at least the retouch tool as it exists now would allow finest adjustments on skins and any kind of textures (PL11 ?).
I agree that it is an oversight, that there are masks now specifically for faces, but no specific tools to adjust skin colors and skin texture.
Yes that’s a possible workaround, thanks.. Often however I would just like to quickly check how the image would look like in black and white, without creating a virtual copy. And then it’s a hassle to come back to the old rendering in color. I guess I could also use the history panel to return? I just don’t find it very intuitive, and see no advantage of having it reset to a value that I never even chose.
Ctrl+z (on Windows) provides a fast undo (to return to Color) … You may need multiples thereof if you’ve changed any of the rendering options (after switching to B&W).
As I understand it (from social media) Lightroom has a point-retouch tool which isn’t restricted to skin. You can click on any colour and adjust it in a very fine/controlled way. Very useful.
Also great option, but also feels more like a work around. I see no reason why they wouldn’t just implement it properly.
I believe it is the same as the HSL tool in Photolab, so for this feature, Photolab was actually ahead of Lightroom.
What I was talking about however were tools specifically for skin, with a reduced tonal range just around skin colour, with much finer control. It’s all about usability.
I don’t find the HSL tool especially usable… when altering uniformity there’s no indication of what pushing the slider either direction will actually do. Then there’s the wheel itself, where there’s no numerical value for the different controls so it’s not possible to replicate exact changes between images without copy/pasting the HSL slider from one image to the next.
It’d be great if we could save presets specifically for this (as we now can with the new colour toning tool)!
And using a partial preset, just for this function ?
Certainly possible, but not as ergonomic. The neat thing about the colour grading presets is that they’re right there in that panel, and only impact the colour grading.
I’d like to see such tool-specific presets saveable across more of the application, rather than having to keep more folders and settings in amongst the global presets. It’s much easier to already be looking at the tool you want to play around with and just change presets that impact that tool.
Actually, that is entirely possible; I just tested it. If all you want is a specific HSL Wheel preset, then on a test image, make a HSL Wheel adjustment ONLY that you want and then save the settings as a new preset.
I get the principle, but am not a fan of that execution (colour grading presets can be found right there in the colour grading tool, where presets for pretty much everything else have to go in the global preset function).
Beware: If you haven’t used the option to create a Partial preset - then following those steps may create a preset that “knocks out” all other previously applied corrections.
John, you are correct, great point. So, be sure to engage the HSL preset as the first thing you do to the image to avoid the erasure. Additionally, any subsequent preset you use will also knock out any previous preset. That’s true for any preset you use.
All true, but the question was limited to the HSL tool which is different than the Color Grading Tool.
Include the Tone Curve in the list of available adjustments with the masking functions.